Sharing with you a msg received today from a friend. How good is Gentium, and can it be used on a Mac?
Anyone put it through all its paces - punctum delens, etc.? mg ===== Dear colleagues, Just thought I'd share a discovery about a new font called Gentium which is excellent for diacritics. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/index.html and used like any other font in Microsoft Word etc. With Gentium you can even place a dot / punctum delens over consonants, which is a godsend to students of Old Irish. Another thing I learnt recently is that in Microsoft Word for Windows 97-2000 a much more painless way than trawling the Symbol Box for letters with diacritics is to install a freeware add-on called UNIQODER. This adds two menus to the menu bar which makes entering Unicode characters much easier. This is available from http://hem.fyristorg.com/dahloe/uniqoder/ [...] -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *